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\section*{About Tao Liu}

Tao Liu is a graduate student and PhD Candidate in the EECS program,
School of Engineering at the University of California, Merced since
2007. He is advised by Alberto Cerpa, assistant professor in the School
of Engineering. He received a B.Eng. degree from Wuhan University in
2000 and a M.Sc. from London South Bank University in 2006 under
guidance of Perry Xiao. He worked as an assistant researcher in Yangtze
River Scientific Research Institute from 2000 to 2005. His research
interests lie broadly in the computer networking and distributed systems
areas with an emphasis on wireless sensor networks. His graduate
research focuses on temporal and spatial behavior of link quality in low
power wireless networks and algorithms for effective wireless link
quality estimation and routing. While in graduate school, he is also
responsible for the maintenance and administration of the computer
laboratory of his research group, including a wireless sensor testbed
comprised of more than 80 heterogeneous sensor nodes.

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